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From our analysis, we found the following most relevant:Most felt the best way to achieve that goal was to avoid speaking with their children about race, racism and racial inequality. past or present.
For example, shortly after I began my research in 2014, Michael Brown, an African American teenager, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, MoParents said they wished they could avoid having upsetting conversations with their children about race, but they feared doing so put their children at risk of bodily harm. In the wake of highly publicized incidents of police violence toward young males of color, these conversations increasingly also focus on how to safely negotiate interactions with the police.
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Among the white parents I interviewed, the majority of whom were middle class, parents expressed a desire to raise non-racist white childrenamong others.
To make sense of this discrepancy, I've spent the past few years researching how white people think about race and racism and more specifically, how white parents verbally and nonverbally communicate racial messages to their childrenin part by reinforcing the idea that whites exist "outside" of racial matters.
Other research corroborates this finding: Most white parents who speak with their children about race adopt a colorblind rhetoric, telling their children that people may "look different" but that "everyone is the same." They also emphasize the importance of treating "everyone the same." While these kinds of statements appear laudatory because they advance a racially egalitarian message, many sociologists point to what these statements ignore